Peso integrates with Yango Food to enable USDT payments for food delivery in Bolivia

Ordering dinner with a stablecoin sounds like something from a crypto conference pitch deck. In Bolivia, it’s now just Tuesday night.

Peso, a Bolivian fintech startup co-founded by Alejandro Terán, has integrated its payment services with Yango Food, a global food delivery platform. The result: users in Bolivia can order meals through Yango Food and settle the bill in USDT, Tether’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, via the Peso app.

How the integration works

Peso positions itself as a bridge between digital dollar balances and local commerce. The app lets users hold USD balances and spend them using familiar payment rails like QR codes and local cards. No traditional bank account required.

Yango Food, part of the broader Yango ecosystem of services, has been expanding its food delivery operations across several countries, including Bolivia where it operates in cities like Santa Cruz. By plugging into Peso’s infrastructure, the platform can now accept USDT-denominated payments without requiring merchants or customers to navigate the complexity of crypto wallets and blockchain transactions directly.

Why Bolivia, why now

Bolivia has been grappling with persistent dollar liquidity constraints, creating real friction for consumers and businesses that need access to stable currency. Physical US dollars have become increasingly scarce in the local economy, prompting increased use of USDT for transactions as of mid-2026.

USDT adoption in Bolivia has been gaining traction not just among traders but among ordinary people trying to preserve purchasing power and conduct everyday transactions, with reports from mid-2026 indicating growing adoption of USDT in both payments and savings.

The bigger picture for stablecoin commerce

The Peso-Yango Food partnership highlights an emerging model in fintech: companies that abstract away blockchain complexity to deliver stablecoin utility through interfaces that look and feel like conventional payment apps. Users top up their Peso balance using local methods, spend it at participating merchants, and never need to think about which blockchain their transaction settled on.

The regulatory dimension remains an open question. Bolivia only lifted its ban on cryptocurrency transactions relatively recently, and the regulatory framework around digital asset payments is still evolving.

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